January 5, 2019

Daphne Koller: “Use the Bayesian-Network-Force, Luke. Let Go!”

Daphne Koller, Stanford Prof., writer with Nir Friedman of a monumental and ground breaking book on Bayesian Networks, inventor of the concept of Markov blankets (my favorite security blanket) and much else related to B nets, cofounder with Andrew Ng of the Coursera MOOC company, where she taught a course based on her B net book, is at it again. On May 2018, she founded the startup Insitro (home page, crunchbase page) which promises to leverage the power of Bayesian Networks for drug discovery. At artiste-qb.net, we are big advocates of applying quantum bayesian nets (invented in 1997, also the name of this 10 year old blog) to quantum computing.